Gut Quotations | Page 2

Terry is busting a gut to get on the field and he will be a big asset to us as the season progresses. It will be almost like signing a new player.

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

I think everybody just needs to look within themselves and reach deep and elevate and just expect more out of themselves. I don't think anybody is at a place right now within their own self that they can be satisfied. I think everybody needs to just do a gut check and work harder and try to get better every single day.

I still feel it grab a little bit. If it was September or something I would definitely gut it out, but since it's the first week, I'll probably give it another day or so.

I still feel in my heart and my gut that it was the right thing to do,

I sure don't see it and I don't really feel it either and I don't think they do. It's like you go out to play golf that day, expect to do your best, gut it out, play as hard as you can and see where the chips fall. I think that's the mindset they've had from day one and they're just keeping that same focus.

I thought Matthew Hayden got it, my gut feel was that it was there.

That was a very good win against a very good team, well-coached and a tough, athletic group. We found a way to gut it out. We didn't shoot the lights out and it wasn't a pretty game, but we found a way to battle through.

That was a gut check to say the least.

That was a gut check. That's what we were looking for after the last two weeks.

That was a real gut check. Things did not look good for a little while. We made plenty of mistakes, but we were able to hang in there, and that is what I am most proud of this football team.

That's what I'm looking forward to most, showing everybody what I can bring to this team and how important the role is to me being the starter. I don't want to get too excited, but I have a gut feeling it will be a good outcome.

I was on Cloud 9 that night. I was very pleased with how they played and how hard they worked. I knew it was going to be a gut check having to play back-to-back.

Will it energize us or de-energize us? I can't answer that. I'm hoping we'll all be strong and persevere and stay together. My gut says we're going to do that, but only (tonight) will tell us the answer.

We proved today we can gut it out.

We played the way I think we should be playing all the time. I thought our guys were into the game. I thought our guys had some energy out there for long periods of time. Where there's an emptiness in our gut because we didn't get the win, I can live with that fact that we're not quite good enough, but we played to the best of our ability.

We could have played 11 each but we felt it was too messy. We've got three days now (till the next match in Queenstown on Wednesday) to see how we feel, but my gut feeling is we'll box on and play it out. But we'll see what happens.

True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

You know what? I really believe in that show. You've got to go with your gut and just love the stuff that you do and be passionate about it and try to find a place for it to work.

We've been flirting with this for a while and this time it bit us. Yeah, they shot the ball well, but everybody is against us lately. We have to be more careful. We're running out of steam and now we have to find some second energy and gut this out a little bit.

We got to dig down deep and gut a few of these road wins out. Those games are going to be tough, I don't think there's any one of them that we can't win. And we're definitely just going to need to give a better effort than we did tonight.

We had created a small space for ourselves between seventh and ninth place. When I added things up in my mind, it wasn't instinct, it wasn't gut feeling. It just seemed like the right thing to do given our schedule.

We were just flat. We knew coming in that Triton was struggling and it was just one of those tough road games where our people didn't show lots of energy. I'm glad we were able to gut it out.

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

Volume is very light, and the news flow is generally light as well. After Labor Day, I think we're going to see volume pick up, and my gut says we're going to see higher stock prices.

We would just gut the house, and then bleach it. Gut and bleach. Gut and bleach.

We were all lacking intensity. We had a gut check and we started feeding off each other for open shots.

We want to be fair and perform due diligence on nominees. We are trying to figure out not just how he might rule on an issue but what his approach is. There are so many split decisions on the Supreme Court because they take difficult cases. You want someone who doesn't rule by gut reaction but will decide based on a commitment to core constitutional principles.

We conducted an analysis and went through every question and weighted all the answers. We also considered our gut feeling about which system and supplier we felt the most comfortable with.

When party leaders approached me three weeks ago, I told them how difficult a campaign would be this year considering my personal and professional commitments, ... Besides, I never cared for candidates who had to be coaxed into a political battle. Either you feel it in your gut or you don't.

When my name was first announced for the WBC, my gut reaction was that I wanted to play. After much thought and discussion with my family, I have decided to remove myself from the upcoming World Baseball Classic roster.

We just have a gut feeling that a lot of these folks are heading back toward the South. Amazing, isn't it? People gravitate toward home, regardless of whether their home is there or not.

Why else would the strip clubs be involved or at all interested? It simply is an attempt to threaten the council so that we will give them what (they) want and gut our ordinance, which protects our commercial and residential neighborhoods.

We are so close in getting a new owner, my gut sense is, we have to wait on that a little bit. As I told you guys before, I have to work within certain limitations. There's nothing I can do about that. The new owner can write his own script. We have told Jose this. The owner doesn't have to fully take over, but we would like that person to talk to him about the contract.

This will definitely gut the head off one of the serpents. We hope this will discourage such activities.

This was a great gut-check win for our team, our program. To go through all that and have to go to overtime and to gut it out, it's a testament to these kids' character.

When you get punched in the gut there are two ways you can react. You can put your fists up and fight or you can run away.

With something of that magnitude, I thought, God, it can't be. My gut reaction was, gee, the whole thing is an error.

We had some rest even though we were down with injuries. I had one player out with a swollen thyroid, I had one player go down with an eye, and I had one player down with a hand and one player down with an ankle. Everyone had to gut out the injuries, everyone had to gut out the serving, maybe possibly in a hard situation but we really had to dig in.

Every time (Northwest negotiators) get at the table and they think they have an advantage, they want to gut the contract.

but my gut told me, 'Oh, no. Here we go again.' I didn't want to come out. I didn't want to let my dream go.

We had to gut it out tonight, and that's what gives us a chance in Raleigh. We did it from start to finish.

This team played with a lot of emotion today and kind of got kicked in the gut in that third quarter. It's a shame.

We found they could be induced to mature into nerve cells, hair follicles, muscle cells and gut endoderm cells. And when cultured in lab dishes, the cells differentiated, or matured, into the three major basic types of cell.

We want to play football. We have an obligation to everyone, particularly our fans. My gut is we're going to come up with something, but it's still up in the air. It's going to be long and drawn out and tough.

We had the right package today. But not having a shot at the victory after starting from the pole and leading a number of laps is disappointing. I thought this was the race we were going to win for our soldiers, who are protecting our freedom here and abroad. We'll get that victory for our troops and I have a gut feeling it's going to happen soon. But for now, we'll take the eighth-place result and go on to the next race.

You do what's in your gut- if you've been doing it long enough, what's in your gut will be appropriate.

We did a little more help-side defense against her. It was a gut check for us in the fourth quarter. We were down seven and we did a nice job battling back.

We didn't panic and got some quick baskets and then solidified (the lead) with rebounding. This was a good gut check for us. This could be a big game, to let us know that we can come back and perform under pressure and execute.

We didn't necessarily have a strategy. We all had our strengths and weaknesses, but we also had enough faith in one another to let whoever had a gut feeling about the answer go ahead and buzz in.

'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

Bob is a true leader and goes off of his gut instinct. This is a key to why his employees support and follow him.

Assuming it's just us and Eureka Broadcasting, which is what my gut instinct tells me it is, I feel good that it doesn't look like some out-of-towner is going to come in here.

At a basic and obvious level, it ties into gut level concern of ordinary people.

At the end of the day, the girls showed character and fight. We have plenty of that. We were down 10 in the second half and the girls found a way to dig in and gut this one out.

Credit Bingham, they brought it out right from the beginning and had a little more intensity while we were a little more passive. But I still had a gut feeling that we were still going to have a chance after we fell behind 17-4.

Angela Merkel may very well be a dead woman walking. My gut instinct tells me Merkel is in a very difficult position, which is why the Social Democrats are grinning so broadly. Right now, everybody is playing chicken.

Even early in the season this was a huge gut check,

It would have to be my gut feeling. If I got a real bad feeling about the way it was going and I wanted to make a change, that's what it would be.

('The Rules') are extremely silly, because a girl's gut reaction is not to behave that way.

The suggestions are not meant to gut any program but to stimulate discussion. I also feel that most of my suggestions are logical and, if voted on, will not affect the educational quality. They are from the top down.

The thing I'm happiest about tonight is that we've got to learn that it's not always going to be a pretty game. Sometimes we're going to have to gut it out, play scrappy and get the bounce in front of the goal. And we did that tonight.

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.

Sometimes you've got to go with what your gut tells you, and my gut said this is a move we needed to make. ... One thing Eddie gives us is versatility.

Sometimes as a coach, you get a gut feeling. I really never felt like we were out of things.

Ron, in his heart, loves Indianapolis. He has stated that he wants out. However, with frustration, sometimes things are said that are not the gut intention but are expressed in a manner that can be viewed as a gut intention.

Northwest has always bargained hard, but ALPA has always bargained hard. We don't intend to gut the contract now.

After last Friday, it was kind of a gut check for us to see what we were made of.

After I saw the first show, I realized my gut feeling was right.

Something in my gut reacted at the moment. Something about what? The unfairness of it? The injustice of it? I don't know.

Do you have a gut reaction to the questionnaire?

Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

Bacteria become resistant in the gut of the cow and then, if we become sick from that form of bacteria, we can't be treated with the antibiotic because suddenly we're dealing with resistant strains.

That's why the McCain amendment is important, and that's why this language they're floating now would gut it,

That's just one of those things your gut tells you. But if you have a lead, you've got to go with defense.

Your gut tells you as a competitor to go for it -- do this, do that, do that -- but in many, many situations, I have seen it go both ways, ... To not have those points at the half would not have been right, either.

This is a piece of real evidence to back up the gut instinct many of us have that the denials of complicity we are hearing from E.U. member and candidate states cannot be relied upon.

This game could be a definite turning point as far as the season, for us. Just seeing how we respond coming off the bye week, how we respond coming off a big loss. It's going to be gut check time. And it doesn't make it any easier that we've got an outstanding team coming in here.

They were killing us with that fullback trap, ... We had a gut check in the red zone.

They were key plays, and I got open. I think the second half was a gut check for us.

They've got a good player they move around a lot. They got good penetration up the gut and that hurt us. We just didn't have a chance to get the play off.

There wasn't a eureka moment when I sat up in bed and said this is what I needed to do. It was a combination of a lot of different conversations and ultimately it comes down to gut and where you feel you need to go and where you feel your future is and there came a point where I recognized this was the right decision for me at the time.

There's a gut feeling among advertisers that the 30-second spot is losing potency. Research aside, they're looking for alternatives.

This is the time of year you want to be playing well. We didn't play well, but we had some guys gut our some pretty decent rounds.

This kid showed me he can do this job, do the role. I'll go by my gut feeling. Hermanson's opportunities will be there, but the way Jenks throws, I'm going to take a lot of chances with him.

This is a victory for sound science, the killer whales, and the people of the Pacific Northwest. However, if Congress continues on its path to gut the Endangered Species Act, the best tools available to protect the killer whale will be ripped right out of the hands of the scientists and resource managers in the Pacific Northwest.

They probably gained a lot of confidence in that U.S. game, so we've got to be ready for anything. In 2002, they gave us a test. It was a bit of a gut check for us.

At a gut level, we know something's wrong. Instead of arguing about it, let's figure out what to do.

It's kinda exciting, ... after you get over the gut ache you have every morning. But everybody's running out of races now. You can't make a mistake because two or three guys might pass you.

It's a similar situation to many homes in New Orleans. They've got to gut everything inside. They've got to repair the roof. There's a lot of issues.

It was definitely a big gut check for the attack. We had to step up as a group.

It was a real gut check for both teams. Both teams were physically exhausted at the end of that game.

It was a tough decision, no question. It was a feel-type thing, something in my gut that told me I needed to do this. Looking at the other quarterbacks in the draft. It's a decision I had to make and I haven't questioned it since.

It will be a gut feeling Friday night.

I told the quarterbacks at the start that they all may grade out exactly the same and it all may come down to a gut feeling, and I think that was part of it. Jeff knows our offense pretty well, makes the correct checks. He's a good leader, the kids rallied around him.

I told them to put that one in their gut and deal with it for a couple days, get fired up for the next one. We weren't ready.

It's one of those things where we have to really dig deep and show some heart out there. Obviously, our backs are against the wall. We have to do something. We have to gut these games out. We have to go out with some fire and realize we have nothing to lose.

It's the first time he has struggled this year. It happens to everybody. It happens to Mariano Rivera a few times during the course of the season as well. I'm glad he was able to gut his way out of it. And thank goodness we put that four-spot up in the bottom of the eight, or it could have gotten really interesting.